Improved vegetable-cutter



v. .HAGMANM Vegetable Cutter.

No 68,184I Y Patented Aug. 27,1867.

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TO ALL lit/'HOM 'l'.l MAY GONCERN Be it known that I, VICTOR HAGMANN, of the city and'county of Washingtominrthe District of Columbia, have invented a new and useful Device for Cutting Vegetables, the. .and I do hereby declare the following to bea full, clea rand exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are made part of this specification, and in whichl l i Figurel is a perspective view'of my improved device.

p Figure 2fis a sectional view, illustrating the Inode of applying the spring-pressure jaw, hereinafter more particularly referred to. p v

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figuresl This device may he employed for cutting up horse-radishes, or for slicing bread, potatoes, radish'es, and other vegetables. It consists essentially of a screwarmed with one or more knives, andcansed, when rotated, to traverse longitudinally withn its bearings by means of a spring-pressure jaw, which, when the screw hns travelled to the limit of its motion, is`adapted to be held out of contact with the screw, to permit it to be retracted and made ready for a repetition offthe operation, as will be hereinafter explained.

In order that others skilled in the art to whichmy invention appertains may be enabled to fully understand and use the same, I will proceed to describe it in detail.

In the drawings, Arepresents a-screw, having a plain portion and a threaded portion, as represented. The plain portion of the screw is permitted to slide freely through the-bearing B, while the threaded portion is made to engage with the threads in the open-sided bearing C by the pressure of the spring-jaw D. (See tig. 2.) The arms or posts E E, in which the bearings are formed, are fixed in a-plate, F, which 'may be fastened by screws to any upright or horizontal support. I Gr is a knife, attached to the Screw A so as to turn therewith.

'The screw is rotated by means of the crank-handle H, and the engagement of the threadsy of the screw with the threads of the bearing() gives the screw a longitudinal progressive movement so long as 'the rotation continues; hence everyrevolution of the knife G is'performed in a path beyond or diiferent from that of the preceding stroke, which adapts the knife to slice or make consecutive incisions, tts-represented. The radish employed'in the illustration, fig. l, is represented as held in position, while under the action of the knife, vby means of the penetrating prongs'or projections f, so that the cuts of the knife vextend only totle crown of the root without detaching the slices. Eadishe's are thus treated to it them. to be more completely impregnated with salt preparatory to eating, the` salt when sprinkled between the slices having better opportunity-to di'use itself. In like manner the knife G may be made to "act upon fruit and vegetables, or even loaves of bread, the thing to be vcut being held upon the prongs i of the disk-plate I. The pronged disk-,plate I affords a con venent means for holding the article to be cu-t when the slices are to be entirely detached, as in cutting vup potatoes, beets, bread, dto. The knife G is, of course, to be made of proper length, to avoid contact with the prongsjQ and the stoplpin or stud a, by contact with the bearing B, arrests the progressive motion of the shaft A in time to prevent the knife from striking the prongs t'. When the screw A has reached the limit' of its progressive movement the spring-jaw D is heldl out of contact with the screw long enough to permit itto be retracted to the position from which it commences its progressive movement. -plurality of knives may be applied to the shaft A if desired.

Having thus described my invention, what .L claim as new herein, and desire to secure by Letters Patient, is 1. A device for cutting vegetables, Ste., having one or more knives .attached to a screw adapted to receive a rotary and progressive motion, substantially as described. v

2. The combination with a screw, A, bearing one or more knives, of the spring-jaw D, for holding saidv screw to its threaded bearing and permitting its ready retraction, substantially as described.

To the above specification otmy improvement I have signed my hand this 27th day-ot April, 1857.

VICTOR HAGMANN.

Witnesses:

Crus. A. Psrrrr, SoLoN C. KnMoN. 

